A few days ago, I visited the cemetery to place new flowers on Bill'sgrave.  Bill's oldest brother, Jim, is buried in the same cemetery, and I placed flowers on his grave as well. The last time I was there I could not find Jim's gravesite because a storm had leveled several trees and his grave was covered over with brush.  It was good to see that the marble gravemarker had finally been placed by the VA.  On that day, I noticed a large, bronze colored, upright monument  in a nearby section of the graveyard.  Curiousity encouraged me to take a closer look.  Standing at the base of the gravestone, I read these touching, heart felt  words, which had been engraved into the  smooth marble.

I give you this one thought to keep,
I am with you still, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the warm Autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am soft stars that shine at night.
So do not think of me as gone,
I am with you still in each new dawn.

At he end of the inscription, I read the dates of  birth and death.  This young man had died at age seventeen.